Michael Harari

Michael Harari (18 February 1927-21 September 2014) was an Israeli Mossad intelligence officer.

Biography
Micahel Harari was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine in 1927, and he joined Haganah at the age of 13, serving as a courier. In 1943, he joined Haganah's elite strike force, Palmach, and took part in a 1945 raid on an Allied internment camp to free 208 imprisoned Jews. He later helped to facilitate Jewish illegal immigration from Europe to Palestine, and he served in Shin Bet in the Israel Defense Forces before joining Mossad during the 1960s. In 1972, he helped to build and lead teams during Operation Wrath of God, and, when he led his team to Norway to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, his team accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter. However, he helped in scoping out the Entebbe Airport ahead of Operation Entebbe, and he also led the team that killed Salameh in 1979. He later became the Mossad station chief in South America, and he returned to Israel from Panama just before Operation Just Cause in 1989; he denied being an adviser to Manuel Noriega. He died in 2014 at the age of 87.